imbathe

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A form of embathe — To bathe.

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Meanings

verbimbathe (third-person singular simple present imbathes, present participle imbathing, simple past and past participle imbathed)

present singular third person imbathes · participle present imbathing · participle past imbathed · past imbathed

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of embathe.

    And gave her to his daughters to imbathe / In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel.

    Comus

    1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC

Origin

From im- + bathe.

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APA

imbathe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/imbathe

MLA

“imbathe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/imbathe. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “imbathe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/imbathe.

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